If you ignored someone just about to throw themself from a high bridge ?
If you saw someone drowning and just walked on by ?
If you encountered people in a burning building and just carried on your way?

Say you started to save someone by giving mouth to mouth or cardiac compressions but gave up, could you be arrested ?

in none of those situations could i see it being criminal because you'd have to put yourself and others at risk and would mostly just cause more problems than you solve.

Also please don't try and do CPR if you're not trained.

I think though like the woman wo stood there after her sister stabbed a guy and instead of phoning the police called hsi family and taunted them saying she wouldn't call an ambulance got sentenced when he died but under a different charge.

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Originally Posted by asim18

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If you ignored someone just about to throw themself from a high bridge ?
If you saw someone drowning and just walked on by ?
If you encountered people in a burning building and just carried on your way?

Say you started to save someone by giving mouth to mouth or cardiac compressions but gave up, could you be arrested ?

afaik there's no specific law that states you must inform the emergency services if you think somebody needs help

and it's ok to give up trying to resuscitate someone, you can't be expected to go at it infinately lol

If you ignored someone just about to throw themself from a high bridge ?
If you saw someone drowning and just walked on by ?
If you encountered people in a burning building and just carried on your way?

Say you started to save someone by giving mouth to mouth or cardiac compressions but gave up, could you be arrested ?

I bet you could probably get sued though. or am I getting confused and thinking of America

This has crossed my mind before. What if your worst enemy was about to suffer a slow James Bond style death that was nothing to do with you and just sat back and said "ho ho ho, I'm going to enjoy this" an waited the 10 minutes it took to kill him.

This has crossed my mind before. What if your worst enemy was about to suffer a slow James Bond style death that was nothing to do with you and just sat back and said "ho ho ho, I'm going to enjoy this" an waited the 10 minutes it took to kill him.

None, the Laws in England and Wales does not make it illegal for an omission act. WITH EXCEPTIONS.

i.e.

If you are a Parent or Guardian of the person - hence you are legally required to care and feed your child. (from Children and Young Persons Act 1933)

Job/Duty - Police officer to help someone in a fight/prevent a crime (Crouther’s Case (1599), or if you are a Doctor, and someone is dying in front of you, you should at least try (without putting yourself in danger).

I remember when I was in Scouts and we were being trained in CPR and recovery position stuff. The Scout Master just warned us that if somebody was unconscious or possibly dead, it didn't change the fact that you can't take advantage of someone! :O

a large portion of the western world has good samaritan laws of one of two different kinds.

The USA largely makes it hard/impossible for people to be sued for helping and failing/doing something wrong.

There and many other places its to help prevent people from being too scared of the repercussions to help.

other places the law works to make it illegal to not help if you can.

In the situation described in the op in those places it would be illegal to not call for help, but wouldn't be required to put your own life at risk.

In the USA you wouldn't get sued for helping and failing, trying CPR but doing it incorrectly, etc, etc.

In the uk we don't really have anything, we're MORE vunerable to being sued for helping than the USA, and less vunerable to being sued for not helping, IE its easier to do nothing in the UK and not get in trouble for it.

If you ignored someone just about to throw themself from a high bridge ?
If you saw someone drowning and just walked on by ?
If you encountered people in a burning building and just carried on your way?

Say you started to save someone by giving mouth to mouth or cardiac compressions but gave up, could you be arrested ?

I would say that you'd have a lot of explaining to do as to why you didn't call 999 in any of those cases.

You never have to put yourself in harm but in some of the situations presented in the thread like heart pills being 6 inches away I believe you could be charged with death by negligence or some such thing.

In France there is the samaritans law which I believe means you can be prosecuted if you don't contact the emergency services or try to help if you see an accident.